RE: I think perhaps it’s the other way around. I see two possible alternative scenarios:
Either way, the impeachment was pointless political posturing. If the intent was to remove the President from office, then it achieved nothing.
If the intent was to SHAME the President, then it simply backfires. Most people who see (other than the TDS Democrats) this know that it is a unprincipled sham and it is the Democrats and Pelosi who ended up looking like the lawless, vindictive, totalitarian asses they are, and it will go down in history as such.
Or maybe the intent was to simply let the Republican Party destroy itself.
Nancy Pelosi just rolled a bunch of hand grenades into the GOP, knowing full well that a bunch of morons like Lizard Cheney and that Kinzinger dope would fall all over themselves to pull the pins out.